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Chapmans (Junior House)

  • HOU-HOU/7
  • Series
  • 1911 - 2010
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Junior House/Chapmans pupils and staff since its opening in 1910. It first comprised the Junior Department with facilities for boys boarders and classrooms. The house was renamed Chapmans in September 1960, after Frank Emerson Chapman, first Housemaster of the Junior House; it became a Senior House. Most of the series is made of photographs, house photographs as well as more informal photographs.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/13-HOU/13/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1920 - 2008
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, living in Wharflands since its inception in 1920. The bulk of the collection gathers photographs from the 1960s to 1980s.

Heawood & Son

Administration

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/4
  • Sub-Series
  • 1939
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on the administration and everyday running of the Junior House/Chapmans.

Oakham School

Deanscroft

  • HOU-HOU/10
  • Series
  • 1948 - 2017
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding boys in Deanscroft, since its opening in 1948. The Headmaster himself was Housemaster, until 1971. Deanscroft boarding house was closed on Speech Day 1989, prior to its conversion into Stevens, a boarding house for girls. The boarding boys were moved to the newly built Haywoods House on Kilburn Road. The items include the complete set of house photographs and informal photographs showing boys around the house and on campus, as well as duty records.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/10-HOU/10/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1948 - 1988
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series contains photographs of the boys in Deanscroft. It covers the whole history of the boarding since its inception in 1948, up to 1988 when the boys were transfered to the new Haywoods house.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1977 - 2003
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of girls in Orchard Close and Buchanans House, mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s. It also contains photographs of the Sixth Form cohort.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans (Orchard Close)

  • HOU-HOU/9
  • Series
  • 1977 - 2011
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Orchard Close (built in 1929), later Buchanans House. It became a girls' boarding house in early October 1975 and Michael Stevens was its first Housemaster. It was renamed Buchanans House in Summer 1977, following the retirement of Headmaster J.D. Buchanan. Work was completed on Buchanans house in 1982 and the extension was ready for occupation in January 1983. The house was first a Seventh Form house and transitioned to a Middle School house in the 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Buchanans, 1980

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1-HOU/9/1/33
  • Item
  • 1980
  • Part of Houses

Three informal photographs of the girls in Buchanans in the academic year 1980-1981 on the stone bridge. The two photographs (A and B) are in colour and slightly different. They were taken by Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls Photography and the number of print is written on the back: R164/7 and R164/8, respectively. The photograph C is in black and white and the number of print is: R164/4.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Stevens

  • HOU-HOU/12
  • Series
  • 1989 - 2008
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on Stevens House pupils and staff since its opening in 1989 after the conversion of Deanscroft, a former boys' boarding house. Most of the series is made of photographs, house photographs as well as more informal photographs focussing on house events.

Oakham School

Photo album, 1989-1991

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2-HOU/12/2/1
  • File
  • From 1989 to 1991
  • Part of Houses

A photographic file from the first two years of Stevens house. The photographs are individual shots of the girls when they first came to the house, as well as an informal photograph of the Sixth form. The photographs were initially gathered in a photo album.

Oakham School

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